Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Tommy
Emmanuel, born and raised in Australia, student of Chet Atkins, currently based
out of Nashville, and does over 300 concerts a year around the world.
Here are five of my favorite samplings of his work, purposely
arranged to tell his story: 1) Somewhere Over the Rainbow, 2) AmazingGrace (South Korea concert), 3) Guitar Boogie (stop at 8:10), 4) OneMan Band, and 5) Tommy and Chet (a little Christmas music).

Tommy
has an amazing amount of music “out there.” Although he
describes himself as a one-man band, he actually performs with a wide
range of other performers, and he loves to make himself accessible to
his audience, and to fledgling artists. I deeply respect him,
as much for his humanity as I do for his amazing talent. Here
is a small sampling of other performers that he has performed with:
1) his brother, Phil, 2) Frank Vignola and Vinny Raniolo from New York, 3) Emil Ernebro from Sweden, 4) Brad Paisley (Grand Ole Opry, Nashville), 5) Igor Presnyakov from Russia (paying tribute to Eric Clapton), 6) John Knowles from Nashville (How Deep is Your Love),

Get in the Christmas Spirit by turning on some Christmas music by Tommy Emmanuel & Company, while you go and do other stuff on the internet:

First eight are a sampling of Tommy Emmanuel's new album (2016), Christmas Memories...